Re: make -V

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 07:38:05PM -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> Sorry, to open this again...
>
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 05:14:36 +1000, matthew green writes:
> >> No problem. It would seem the consensus is leave things as is.
> >> It would have been useful to not have to re-work all the freebsd ports
> >> collection - which relies on make -V PKGNAME doing full expansion.
>
> What if this behavior were controlled by a knob
> such that the default behavior is unchanged?
That sounds like an excellent suggestion - thanks, Simon!
> This would allow a setting in sys.mk for FreeBSD to maintain
> compatability for them.
>
> The patch is trivial (I had it laying around - just need to find it ;-)
Ah, yes, my perennial problem, too. :-)
Best,
Alistair